The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1887-09-21
PITH AND POINT.

Bills are usually presented in due
time.
Some one says. the age of o political
party may be toldiby its rings.
1t is a singular thing that man never
begins to show his temper until he loses
it.
The crow is asensibse bird for he sell
dom opens his mouth without caws.--
Waterloo Obseruer.
never was ont dull, tame shore, -
But loved the great sea more and more;
And ne'er on the steamers deck stand,
But that I'd givemyboots for land.-Lite.,
Advice to young: ladies who are setting:
their caps: Use percussion caps so that
the "pop" may: be- heard.-Neo Raosn
News. g.
The reason that dogs are seldom,
drowned is because they always have
their bark, with. them.-Duluth Para,
grapher.
What is ancestry after all2 The riOh
man as well as the poor one begins life
without q. shirt. to his back Charleston
Aduertiser.
A policeman declares that he has to
handle about as many pieces OF male
matter as they do at the postofice.-Nsso
York Nesos..
Some think it adds to woman's beau.
ty to bang her hair, but others think
woman is, ugly who bangs her her.-S.
Paul Herald.
The young men who originated the
ice-cream. scare now have an expert at
work on the dangers of opara.-Pitts-
burg Dispatch. 49,.
'I'm coming, my darling. through the
tall, waving corn," says a new love song.
Been stealing her old mans pumpkins,
most likely.-DansuiUe Breeze.
Do not blame the genial hotel clerki
the big diamond he wears generally be-
longs to some fellow who owes fos his
board. Macon (Ga.) Telegraph.
The female mosquito does oil tho
biting and the male mosquito all the sing.
ing. Together they make up a heap. OK
agony for mankind.-Haryord Post.
What is that sound, so deep and strong,
That seems the skies to bursta
What great eventso moves the throngf-
~ ''' -WashSngtoa Critic.
There is no need of your taking your
daughter to Europe in order that she may
marry title. For $4,000 a man can be
cnnohled in waii.-Minneapolis 1r'-
bune.
The number of photographers in the
United States has increased to eleven
thousand, but you can try them all and
not get a picture to do you full justice.
Detroit Free Press.
Times are awfully dull in Cincinnati.
A prisoner at the police court told the
nudge that he had sat for eighty-tve days
in one saloon without being able to strlks
q job.-Detr9N Free Press. %
One of the queer things of the age Is
that where one man can be found to work
; for two dollars day, four can be found
! to sit on the fence and look ut him fol
nothing.-Lincoln Journal.
Resolute old lady, on the ferry
"Young man, wish you'd throw away
that nasty cigar; it's making me sick"
| Wavering young man, meekly compliant
-"Me too."-Brootlyn Eagle.
IT'S pleasant to move in quadrille while list
To airs s one delightfully."- hears, ~
But awful it is when your necktie's insisting
| On climbing up over your ears: So
Boston Courier.
! A photographer says; "a man undel
the influence 81 liquor never takes q good
photograph" A man under the influence
of liquor shouldn't be allowed to take
photographs. He should hire sober man
or close his shop.-BOston Courier.
'How did you break that lamp2'
roared Mr.. Testy. "Just lighted it, and
that broke it," said his wife; "darkness
falls, you know, but light breaks" SIT.
a wonder your head doesn't break, then,'
Mr.. Testy was going to say, but unfortu'
nately, he didn't think of it.-Burdette.
FELT WANT.
The social young fellow,
Whose years are score,
Who hath at the mountains,
Or on the scashore,
With sad prodigality
Souandrled his store,
Now taketh no comfort i'll
Pleasuring that
Hath gone down the past
With its bisses ecstat-
Ic; but bitterly sayeth
In language quite pat,
at would fill a felt ,cant
If / had fall hat!'
-Tid-Bits.